Brazil to hand over key suspects

The police in Guyana said they expect Brazil to hand over two key suspects in the 2005 killing of two American missionaries near the border with the Brazilian state of Roraima.



Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Seelall Persaud, confirmed that police had secured arrest warrants from the court in Guyana.



He said this process was necessary after previous efforts had failed to get Brazil to hand over the men, in the absence of an extradition treaty between the two countries.



At the time they were killed, the American missionaries were working in Guyana\'s interior, translating the Bible into an indigenous Amerindian language.